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The generalities

Words, words, words! So much to read and write and do and see, yet so little time. I am hoping that with a presumed absence of a “plentiful lack of wit,” this blog can scratch through the pervading shadows–at least a little. Onward to the “intolerable wrestle/With words and meanings.”

The specifics

In no particular order, I am the following: a recovering English major, editor, proofreader, and fact-checker; wife; mother; writer; runner; reader; prog and rock music-lover; unabashedly amateur photographer and gardener; and lover of family, nature, hashtag games, both speech and the written word, and pad buns. (Erm, make that bad puns.) I hope you’ll join me as we reach into the silence; who knows what we’ll find if we only try.

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Hello, welcome, and thanks for your comment. I’ll call you “Girls” for now, as I don’t know your name from reading your “About” page, since there are two writers on your blog. As you’re an English major now, I daresay you already are a writer–and looking at your story, it is very gripping, even for non-parents, I think! For a long time, I’ve defined myself as a writer, and I think that’s important (how we think of and present ourselves to the world). In any case, I am excited to read what happens to Elise/her legs and get more background on her and her family and why on Earth the friend didn’t show up.

No worries, Andy. I enjoy your site (recently read your thoughts on the younger generation and agree with you wholeheartedly) and can identify with the ’80s music and parenting, for sure. Best wishes to you and yours–keep those b&w photos and writings coming! 🙂

Hi Leigh, I wanted to thank you for the follow! Please be aware that my blog is a bilingual one. So you may get links to some poems in English as well as to some in Italian… Pictures, on the other hand, have no language barriers 😉
Keep up the good work.
Anna

Hi, Anna, and thanks for visiting and for the note about your bilingual site. I’ll read the Italian ones as well, even if I can pick up only a few words here and there with my limited knowledge of Italian. 🙂 The language has a music all its own, regardless of my inability to understand the content! In any case, best wishes to you as well–happy creating!

And thank you so much, Norma. I, too, am grateful for the “open sky” (to use your great wording) that WP provides us, where we can be creative. This conversation about what it means to be a writer (versus, say, an author or journalist) has been on my mind a lot lately, too. In any case, best wishes to you on your blogging.

You are so sweet, Frankie (as your ode to your anamchara proves)! As I am new to the WP realms, let me check this Liebster thing out; but I do want to thank you for the kind thought in advance. Happy writing, my friend!

You have no idea , how happy your blog made me today . That too your “About” page . A reader . A writer . Sometimes That alone is enough for me in a person . Leigh , I’m 22 , and music and books complete me . Getting to know a blogger like you just made me happy . Can’t wait to get through all of your blog posts 🙂 🙂

That’s a great question, Hilary. I’m not too sophisticated (obviously!) at this point in terms of the blog design and what-not. Let me check into this and I’ll see what (if anything) in the way of an e-mailing list that I can do on the cheap (I don’t have the fancy, non-free WordPress at this point). Thanks for asking — and have a great week!